pdf edit again.

[Gary Kline]

On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 05:12:48AM +0100, Jona Joachim wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:42:03 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:03:17PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote:
> >> On November 3, 2007 08:38:55 pm Gary Kline wrote:
> >> > 	A couple weeks ago I skimmed thru the postings on editing PDF
> >> > 	files.  Wasn't entirely clear what the answer it because I never
> >> > 	thought I would need to edit a GUI file.  I just found a book
> >> > 	from 1883 in pdf format.  I would like a text/ASCII/ISO_8859-1
> >> > 	version.  Tried pfdtotext, but it doesn't work.   Nutshell: is
> >> > 	there something I can use  to edit/look-at this book and get rid
> >> > 	of whateveriit is that's causing pdftotext to fail.  (sorry for
> >> > 	the grammar.... )
> >> >
> >> > 	gary
> >> 
> >> Try gv and xpdf.  You might get lucky. 
> >> 
> >> Otherwise - try od :-)
> >> 
> > 
> > 	Welll, yeah, I can view ths file with xpdf or any other viewer,
> > 	but can't figure out what's blocking it from being converted to
> > 	ASCII.  I've seen pdfedit for linux, but haven't found it....
> > 
> > 	thanks,
> > 
> > 	gary
> > 
> > 	PS: can't figure out whyanybody would take a pub domain book 
> > 	    125 years old any say "copyright"......   *mumble*
> 
> The guy who scanned the book did actually invest a considerable amount
> of work into scanning it and he can claim copyright for that work.
> The text itself may be in the public domain but the pdf file is subject to
> copyright.
> 


	So then I could consier my HTML version of the philosophy books
	that friends and I OCR'd in.  --Yes, it is a Lot of work...
	but as least for myself, i wouldn't be that crass.

	gary





> Best regards,
> Jona
> 
> 
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